I've commented about how I'm looking around for leaders to follow in these momentous times in the history of the United States. These times call for leaders of the quality and impact of a Martin Luther King Jr., or a Malcom X, César Chávez, or labor leaders like New York's Victor Gotbaum.
I'm tired of waiting. If anybody knows where they are, please let me know so I can "sign up".
I'm going to cut straight through the chase about what (I believe) needs to be done, but for a little background, the reader can take a look at some of my previous diaries.
Before I continue, let me state that this diary is not focused on complaining about how evil the extreme right wing is, or about defeatism. It's about trying to help you realize first and foremost, how much power you have, and secondly, how that power (if focused behind a common cause) can effect very important (and needed) changes in our country during these momentous times in her history.
The Challenge
During the last three or four decades there was a very sophisticated and concerted effort by a powerful ideologically-driven group of people to weaken all the legislative and constitutional protections against abuses of power, with the express purpose of taking the reigns of the country. Yes, we are talking about a conspiracy.
They were able to undermine the regulatory framework, and this in turn allowed them to take full control of the government (both major political parties), and the media. This control allowed them to chip away at the infrastructure necessary for the existence of a vibrant middle class. It also put them in position to be able to loot the treasury of the United States. This has happened multiple times. The 2008 financial crisis (the result of the looting of trillions of dollars by Wall Street) was just the latest installment.
They have also taken control of the entire mainstream media and have turned it into the most powerful and effective propaganda machine the world has ever known. This "brainwashing" apparatus in turn is used to keep you compliant, in a daze, confused, and imbue with a sense of impotence to face the criminality of what I call a Neo-Fascist Corporatist Regime.
During much of the 2000's, they have been busy putting into place a Neo-fascist infrastructure which is now being deployed. Some of these include the undermining of constitutional protections, privatization of government functions (including some parts of the criminal justice system), and an almost omni-present surveillance apparatus.
Why are they doing this? The reader needs to understand that this is nothing new. Throughout the entire history of the world, ruling elites have done everything in their power to be able to control and exploit the populace. The main motivating factors include a sense of entitlement, unimaginable and inexplainable greed, and a lust for power.
They want to manipulate you, control you, and enslave you. That's the bottom line.
The Solution
Stop. Think about how much attention you are paying to what they do. On the Left there is an almost obsessive focus on all the horrible things they are doing, why they are doing them, how mean they are, how they want to take hard-won women's rights, and workers rights, and undermine social security, and Medicare.
It's not that is not important to know what they are doing. It's that we have to come up with our own bold and focus agenda to defeat them.
Speaking of bold, please understand that at this point what is needed is boldness. We need a very powerful and focused resistance movement. A resistance movement that pulls no punches.
But for such resistance movement to be effective it has to be extremely focused and disciplined. It has to be able to elicit conviction, passion, and yes, zealotry in it's members. The stakes are that hight at this point.
This Neo-Fascist Criminal Oligarchy bases much of its philosophy on concepts related to Social Darwinism, and Eugenics. They are vicious sociopaths.
Their vision includes a world where the elder, infirm, sick, and poor are left on their own, to die off. And the rest compete in a semi-slave system where the highest reward involves being able to live at a sustenance level.
Rejoice, because you know that what I'm going to describe next will happen. It has to happen. There is no choice, if we are to break the choke-hold these sniveling sociopaths (SS) have on our country.
Imagine... Millions of people around the country, part of a very focused, disciplined, organized, and relentless resistance movement. Dozens of huge ongoing protests in Washington, D.C., in New York in front of Wall Street, and other key cities around the country. Hundreds of very well-crafted lawsuits, freedom of information act requests (to expose the conspiracy). A very sophisticated public relations and media campaign.
A Show of Hands
This movement will need a Vanguard, and a Rearguard, just like a regular "army." And of course, it needs to be peaceful, and operate within the law, and within the constitution. This is very important because such a movement will represent the most effective way of removing the choke-hold of the SS.
Some people at the vanguard would need to be brash, in your face, agitators, disruptive (to shake things up). So we'll need seasoned activists, retired people, students, and people who have been brutalized by the system, such as the unemployed, people who have lost their homes, or lack basic health care access.
We'll also need researchers, lawyers, journalists, economists, wealthy people with a heart (WPWH), writers, technologists.
Demands and Focus
The most important demand should be to completely remove the power corporations have on society. So "corporate personhood" needs to be rescinded. Corporate money needs to be removed from the political system, so all elections should be publicly funded.
Break up all conglomerates, but especially focus on banking and media, who cause the most damage to society.
Repeal all legislation that has encroached on constitutional protections; especially the Patriot Act, and all (or most) such legislation since 9/11.
Forbid all companies from tracking the activities of the citizenry. ALL. No Google, or Facebook, or Yahoo. Make it illegal to track one single byte of data about people's activities online, unless there is probable cause for an investigation about possible crimes.
Eternal protections for Social Security and Medicare. Free education from K to College. Single payer health care system (Medicare for all).
Investigate and punish Wall Street crimes committed in the 2000s, as well as War Crimes committed by members of the Bush Administration. Recover hundreds of billions of dollars from the accounts of these criminals and use that money to stimulate the economy. Stop all the ongoing wars.
Commitment, Passion, and Zeolotry
Here's what you need to understand... These Neo-fascist Sniveling Sociopaths are EVIL. They don't respect life or the environment. They want the old and the infirm and the poor to die off. They want to enslave you so they can enjoy unimaginable wealth and privilege, on your back.
And somehow, they have been able to take (indirect) control of the government! They are now in the process of consolidating power, and if you don't do something about it RIGHT NOW, it will be too late. We will end up living in a cruel dystopian society.
You need to digest this reality; you need to understand it. Once you do, you will have no problem being passionate about the need to stop these scumbags.
And understand that you can get involved, and still go about your daily life. This is not an either/or proposition. You don't have to do anything extraordinary.
But the movement does needs to be, again, extremely focused, well-organized, disciplined, and with staying power.
I look forward for input and ideas about how we can start a peaceful but POWERFUL Resistance Movement. But keep this vision... Millions of people around the country, part of a movement to restore true democracy, justice, and equality in this country, and to remove the choke-hold of the Parasitic Sniveling Neo-Fascist Sociopaths. It will happen. Ordinary people joining together to show these scumbags the closing FIST of a UNITED FRONT.